The Rolling Composter - Especially for Kitchen Scraps

An easy and convenient way to turn kitchen waste into rich compost!

Wheels right out to the garden when compost is ready

Compact tumbler takes up little space

Please allow 1 to 2 weeks for delivery

It's no bother composting kitchen scraps when you have this convenient tumbler near the back door. Our compact composter is sized just right to handle food scraps, and with a few quick spins, turn them into rich garden gold. When your compost is ready, just wheel it out to the garden. The big hinged door makes access easy. Tubular steel frame has rust-resistant powder coating.

I just love the fact that we don't throw away all those kitchen scraps. They go right out to the composter. When I first started, I had trouble with moist, smelly "YUK" for compost, but figured out I wasn't adding enough brown stuff. So I simply started adding in a good amoung of brown leaves every week, and the compost reduces by about 50% in less than a week. It is never smelly now, it is easy to access and easy to turn and mix. When the composter is pretty full, we shovel it out into a pile that we mix with potting soil and aother additives, then start all over in the compost bin. We recommend it. It is a little pricey, but is perfect for a small back yard. We just bought another one for our son who is starting to garden.

My 10-year-old son and I put it together fairly easily. The first batch of mulch took 3 months -- probably because I didn't have enough brown material. I solved that for the second batch by buying the coir bricks from GSC. My main complaint is the bugs that are inside the container with the composting matter: maggots and small flying insects. Yuck!

It works well enough. With no handle to turn the barrel, you must do it by hand using the grooves in each section. Every time it rains, the grooves fill with water. You can't really turn the barrel by standing on the side, so after a rain, you get drenched when you turn the barrel. There's no drainage in the grooves.

Years later (maybe 4) the door will not stay on when turning, not even when bound with bungee cords. Two years ago I had to move it off the patio and into the "way-back" because when the bin dumped the half-cooked compost onto the patio, I couldn't scoop it up fast enough to keep it away from the dogs. Now even the latch is broken. As soon as I can clear out the mass sitting inside, the whole bin will go in the trash.

My wife and I use the composter to create healthy organic fertilizer for our vegetable garden. We love that it is mobile and we can role it directly to where we will apply the compost. We add our kitchen scraps and fallen leaves to the composter weekly, add a little water from the hose, and give it a few turns. It doesn't get any better!

I am a Maryland Master Composter & have a variety of composters. This little one is fine for turning provided you don't overload it. Processes garden wastes & kitchen scraps well. May need two if you have a large garden or family. HOWEVER, a pair of mice chose to eat their way through the plastic by the centerbar, and now it will not turn easily. Centerbar area is most vunerable in any TURNING frame type composter.

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